#c: Chelyabinsk

[crownsofesha]

Tsar Pyotr Dmitriyevich and Tsarina Yekaterina Nikolayevna Yurievsky (circa 5694)

The pair ruled over chelyabinsk from 5694 to 5696, when they were assassinated in a plot to overthrow the Yurievsky family due to the poor conditions that Tsar Dmitriy III Fyodorovich Yurievsky and his wife had kept the common peoples lives in. Tsar Pyotr tried to bring forth many new laws and repeals to bring good to the common people. The pair were married in 5677 and had five children together. Their youngest and only son died at the age of three, and since there was a law stating that only sons could inheirt the throne, Tsar Pyotr repealed it, making his daughter Vasilia the third female Tsar of Chelyabinsk after his death.

[sgiandubh]

Trick or treat?

Time to re-read this wonderful post by @wildfernflower:

I mean, yeah:

Linked In, people, FFS! Supposedly active in 'music' , whatever that might mean.

1 connection. 3 followers.

For comparison, please refer to my completely dormant Linked In account. I literally did nothing with it, just politely clicked on all the invitation links that popped in my Gmail. Because no one wants to look like Yeti when asked at the next reception something along the lines of ' oh, did you receive my Linked In link?'

I don't need Linked In to keep tabs on things and I never got used to it, that's all.

I also filled in some details, because it asked me to. I still have more connections and followers than Tracula, mind you:

I do not use Linked In. But... does Tracula have an email? The answer is probably yes, yet how the hell is the 1 connection and 3 followers profile supposed to make sense in the synoptics of a successful, millionaire real estate investor and multiple businesses owner?

He doesn't work for a Soviet nuclear facility located in one of those closed cities you couldn't find on any map (Chelyabinsk-65, anyone?), mind you.

He is not included in a federal witness protection program.

He did not defect from North Korea and currently de-briefed by Seoul.

He is not an in pectore appointed Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

He is not a Yakuza warlord or a росси́йская ма́фия /Russian mafia Avtoritet, whose CV would be read by the cognoscenti on this tattoos, not on Linked In.

Nope. He's not even a Calabrese capofamiglia (pun totally intended, btw).

Well, then... could he simply be a .... ghost?

'Tis the season.

[paganimagevault]

Magyar grave finds from Uyelgi 9th-10th C. CE

"There is a connection of the South Ural region to the formation of many peoples. However, every year new evidence is found that ancient Hungarians lived in this territory. The studies of the bones from a burial ground in the South Ural region, and comparing the revealed haplotypes to those of the ancient Hungarians have served as the confirmation to this theory. The results of the research conducted by an international team of scientists have been published in the highly rated journal Scientific Reports (Q1).

Scientists have been studying this issue starting from the 19th century, but every year brings new archaeological finds, which "move" the ancient Hungarians farther east. In the Trans-Ural region, the main landmark of the era of the ancient Hungarians, which confirming the theory that they lived in the Volga-Ural region, is the Uyelgi cemetery in the Kunashaksky District of the Chelyabinsk Region.

The Uyelgi cemetery has been studied for over 10 years now. Skeletons of ancient people were found in the burial ground complex, as well as objects that had belonged to them in their lifetime: armour, jewellery, and fragments of horse harnesses. These finds are quite similar to the objects discovered in the Carpathian Basin, and this means that one can assume that the resettlement of the peoples from the Trans-Ural region to the territory of modern Hungary happened quickly, within the time of just several generations.

The researchers analyzed the genetic affinity of the ancient Hungarians to their presumable ancestors by studying the bones from the Uyelgi cemetery, as well as from burial grounds in the Perm Territory.

'The SUSU scientists were handling the empiric base, that is they were preparing reports to present the data to the public, and were collecting the bone materials. Our selection turned out to be the biggest one: 22 samples were presented. Based on these, a group of paleogeneticists from Hungary revealed the similarity in the haplotypes with the Hungarian population. At this stage we obtained new quality data that the history of the early Hungarians and proto-Hungarians is connected to the eastern regions,' shared Ivan Grudochko.

The paleogeneticists in the laboratory in Hungary determined at once several haplotypes (groups of forms of the same genes in the chromosome loci), which are found in the Hungarian conquerors and people buried in the Uyelgi cemetery. The scientists explain the phylogenetic affinity by the common genealogy. Later the ancestors of the Hungarians and the Ural people get divided by an Eastern component, the origin of which is yet to be discovered. According to a tentative version, those were the early Kipchak people who came from Altai.

Thus, the scientists have found out that the resettlement from the Trans-Ural region to Europe took place in the 9th century, but the peoples of these two territories maintained their connection in the later periods as well.

"Year after year this monument confirms our hypotheses with regard to the processes that were happening in the steppe zone of the South Ural region. It holds the traces of a 250-300-years epoch. Uyelgi has helped solve a whole series of problems of the culture genesis, the emerging of the cultures on the territory of big region, from Irtysh to Volga, and from Perm to the Central Kazakhstan," commented Sergei Botalov."

-South Ural State University, Paleogeneticists Confirm the Affinity of the Hungarians to the South Ural Region

[usafphantom2]

VIDEO: Ukrainian saboteurs set fire to Su-34 fighter bomber in eastern Russia

The Ukrainian intelligence board posted a video of a fire near the fuselage of the Su-34 jet.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 04/01/2024 - 23:10in Military, War Zones

Saboters working for Ukrainian Intelligence set fire to a Su-34 bomber at the Shagol airfield in Chelyabinsk, 1,500 km inside Russia, in the east of the country.

The group of Ukrainians entered Russia, traveled the 1,500 kilometers to the Chelyabinsk air base in northern Kazakhstan, sneaked into the snow-covered runway under the cloak of darkness and set fire to a Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback bomber of the Russian Air Force.

The approximate location of the Chelyabinsk-Shagol air base in Russia. (Photo: Google Maps)

The Chief Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR) released images on YouTube of a Russian Su-34 tactical bomber being set on fire at the Chelyabinsk aviation camp on the night of January 4. Several Ukrainian media outlets released the video.

Citing the GUR, the reports reported that the aircraft belonged to the aviation regiment of the 21ª mixed aviation division of the aerospace forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

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The extent of the damage to the aircraft cannot be determined by the video, which shows only a small fire the size of a candle in the fuselage, near the engine compartment.

Near the end of the video, the flames inside the aircraft began to get more and more intense.

The right air intake of the Su-34 fighter-bomber

Video images make it difficult to assess possible damage to the aircraft, but the high temperature may have deformed the fuselage.

The Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers are among the best in the Russian air force - and the most active along the 1,000-km front line of Russia's broader war against Ukraine, which has already lasted 23 months.

Russian Air Force Su-34 Fullback fighter. (Photo: Alex Beltyukov / Wikimedia Commons)

The Ukrainian forces are doing everything they can to shoot down all the Su-34s they can. Quickly repositioning long-range air defenses in southern Ukraine last month, the Ukrainian air force slashed four Su-34s in the space of a week. If the sabotaged jet leaves service, the Russians may be reduced to about 125 Su-34, in a pre-war fleet of no more than 150.

A satellite view of the Chelyabinsk-Shagol air base dated May 17, 2023. In the close-up, a pair of Su-24, three Su-34s and a single Su-35 on the air base ramp. (Photo: Google Earth)

It is not the first act of sabotage committed by a Ukrainian agent within Russia, but it may be the most daring. And it may have cost the Russian Air Force another of its increasingly threatened Su-34s.

In October 2022, a Ukrainian sneaked into a Russian airfield near Pskov to blow up a Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter. Pskov is 800 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

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In September 2023, saboteurs blew up An-148 and Il-20 planes in an aviation field in the Moscow region, as well as a Mi-28N helicopter, which had previously been actively involved in the shooting down of attack drones in the Moscow region.

Previously, several parked long-range bombers would have been damaged in an aviation field near the border with Ukraine due to a drone attack launched from within Russia.

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[tomorrowusa]

From @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

As my Polish grandmother might have put it: “God is punishing Russia.” It’s amusing how those extra cold temperatures roughly conform to Russia’s borders.

Temperatures as of 1615 GMT/UTC on Sunday...

Kyiv 🇺🇦 ··················· -5°C/23°F

L’viv 🇺🇦 ·················· +1°C/34°F

Odesa 🇺🇦················ -1°C/30°F 

Moscow 🇷🇺············· -18°C/0°F

St. Petersburg 🇷🇺··· -16°C/3°F

Chelyabinsk 🇷🇺······ -24°C/-11°F

London 🇬🇧·············· +7°C/45°F

Paris 🇫🇷················· +11°C/52°F (Il fait chaud)

Toronto 🇨🇦··············· -3°C/27°F

New York City 🇺🇸···· +2°C/36°F

Tokyo 🇯🇵 ················· +6°C/43°F

Stockholm 🇸🇪·········· +3°C/37°F

Mostly average or above average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere cold belt – except in deep freezing Russia. 🥶

[goalhofer]

2023-24 Washington Capitals Roster

Wingers

#8 Alex Ovechkin (Moscow, Russia) C

#15 Frank Milano (Oyster Bay, New York)

#39 Anthony Mantha-Pronovost (Longueuil, Quebec)

#43 Tom Wilson (Toronto, Ontario)

#45 Matthew Phillips (Calgary, Alberta)**

#47 Beck Malenstyn (Delta, British Columbia)

#67 Max Pacioretty (New Canaan, Connecticut)

#77 T.L. Oshie (Warroad, Minnesota)

#96 Nicolas Aubé-Kubel (Sorel-Tracy, Quebec)

Centers

#17 Dylan Strome (Mississauga, Ontario)

#19 Nicklas Bäckström (Valbo, Sweden) A

#21 Aliaksei Protas (Vitebsk, Belarus)

#24 Connor McMichael (Ajax, Ontario)

#26 Nic Dowd (Huntsville, Alabama)

#29 Hendrix Lapierre (Gatineau, Quebec)**

#92 Evgeny Kuznetsov; Jr. (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Defensemen

#3 Nick Jensen (Rogers, Minnesota)

#4 Hardy Häman-Aktell (Kåge, Sweden)**

#6 Joel Edmundson (Brandon, Manitoba)*

#22 Lucas Johansen (Port Moody, British Columbia)**

#25 Dylan McIlrath (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

#27 Alexander Alexeyev; Jr. (St. Petersburg, Russia)

#38 Carl Sandin (Uppsala Stad, Sweden)

#42 Martin Fehérváry (Bratislava, Slovakia)

#57 Trevor Van Riemsdyk (Middletown Township, New Jersey)

#74 John Carlson (Woodbridge Township, New Jersey) A

Goalies

#31 Hunter Shepard (Grand Rapids, Minnesota)**

#35 Darcy Kuemper (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

#79 Charlie Lindgren (Lakeville, Minnesota)

[shoorick]

Ледяной городок на площади Революции — в самом центре Челябинске должны были открыть ещё на той неделе, но из-за потепления до +3 °C отложили открытие до 28.12. Сегодня заметно холоднее — около –20 и, видимо, #лёд из жидкого стал всё-таки твёрдым — городок наконец-то открыт. #вечер #зима #декабрь #Челябинск #Россия #evening #winter #december #december2022 #ice #Chelyabinsk #Russia (at Площадь Революции (Челябинск)) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmufy00oRSx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[minerali-list]

Azurite  Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2

Russia, South Ural, Chelyabinsk region, Varna district, Miheevskoye

Photo:  Ekaterina  Pakhneva

[sabrerattler]

In the fall of 1966, USSR used nuclear explosive for the first time to control a well that had been burning for three years in Uzbekistan.

In December 1963, while drilling gas Well No. 11 in the Urta-Bulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan about 80 km southeast of Bukhara, control of the well was lost at a depth of 2450 m. This resulted in the loss of more than 12 million m3 of gas per day through an 8-inch casing, enough gas to supply the needs of a large city.

Formation pressures were about 270-300 atmospheres. Over the next three years, many attempts were made using a variety of techniques to cap the well at the surface or to reduce the flow and extinguish the flames.

Finally, in the fall of 1966, a decision was made to attempt closing the well with the use of a nuclear explosive. It was believed that a nuclear explosion would squeeze close any hole located within 25-50 m of the explosion, depending on the yield.

Two 13 1/2 inches deviated wells were drilled simultaneously. They were aimed to come as close as possible to Hole No. 11 at a depth of about 1,500 m in a 200 meter-thick clay zone. This depth was considered sufficient to contain the 300-atmosphere pressure in the gas formation below.

The location for the explosive in the selected relief well was cooled to bring it down to a temperature the explosive could withstand.

A special 30-kt nuclear explosive developed by the Arzamas nuclear weapons laboratory for this event was ran in hole and stemmed. It was detonated on September 30, 1966.

Twenty-three seconds later the flame went out, and the well was sealed. A few months after the closure of the Urtabulak No. 11 hole, control was lost on another high-pressure well in a similar nearby field, the Pamuk gas field.

This time, a special explosive developed by the Chelyabinsk nuclear weapons laboratory was used.

It had been designed and tested to withstand the high pressures and temperatures in excess of 100°C expected in the emplacement hole. It also was designed to be only 24 cm in diameter and about 3 m long to facilitate its use in conventional gas and oil field holes.

The second success gave Soviet scientists great confidence in the use of this new technique for rapidly and effectively controlling gas and oil wells. In April 1972 a 14-kt nuclear bomb was detonated to seal a gas well in the Mayskii gas field about 30 km southeast of the city of Mary in Turkmenistan.

In July 1972, another runaway gas well in eastern Ukraine, 65 km southwest of Kharkiv, was sealed with a nuclear explosion.

The last attempt to use this application occurred in 1981 on a well in the Kumzhinskiy gas deposit in the northern coast of Western Siberia near the mouth of the Pechora River, 50 km north of the city of Nar’yan Mar.

Reports indicated that due to the wrong position of the relief well, the explosion failed to seal the blowout.

Of the Soviet attempts to extinguish runaway gas wells, the Ministry for Atomic Energy of Russia reports that all the explosions were completely contained, and no radioactivity above background levels was detected at the surface of the ground during post-shot surveys.

[ishutinovm-blog]

#челябинск #суровыйгород #chelyabinsk #cruelcity #челябинсксегодня #chelly #челябинскфото #челябинск74 #урал #车里雅宾斯克 #ural (at Balandino, Chelyabinskaya Oblast', Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtIMrwFB0Va/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nqlaar0qc2zj

[earthstory]

Meteorites and Snow Carrots

On February 15, 2013, a meteor lit up the sky over western Russia. Parts of the meteoroid survived the descent through the atmosphere and broke apart into smaller pieces. The fragments landed in snow 70cm thick and were subsequently collected by geologists.

We know that meteorites create craters when they impact rock or soil, but what happens when they hit a thick layer of snow? It turns out they sometimes create something called “snow carrots” – dense formations of snow so compacted that scientists were able to dig them out and turn them over without them falling apart; they even still held tight to their meteorite (pictured).

The meteorite fragments were mostly found in funnel-shaped holes in the snow with unusually coarse-grained walls. The largest pieces went through all 70cm to reach the frozen ground. The smaller fragments were trapped in snow carrots.

The Chelyabinsk meteorite snow carrots formed at the bottom 15 – 25cm of depth within the holes, as defined by where the funnel narrowed into a cone shape. The meteorites were at the tip of the carrots surrounded by a dense shell of coarse-grained snow similar to the grain of the wall.

Scientists were not sure how the carrots formed, but suspected either melting or compaction as the mechanism. They set up computer models to test both possibilities. The models showed that most of the fragments cooled so much before reaching the ground that melting could not be responsible for the carrots. However, when the projectiles hit, they pushed snow out of the way forming a funnel, and compressed the snow enough to increase the density 13-18% and creating funnel walls approximately 3.4cm thick. In other words, it formed a snow carrot.

The research may help explain what happens during any high-velocity impact into a porous, compressible material. The researchers noted something similar to snow carrots was seen in NASA’s Stardust mission where comet particles were captured in aerogel on a spacecraft.

RE

Photo Credit: C. Lorenz

References: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/1724.pdf

http://bit.ly/1MRedH1

[crownsofesha]

Tsarina Vasilia II Pytrovna Yurievsky of Chelyabinsk (circa 5698)

Tsarina Vasilia was the third female Tsar of Chelyabinsk before she disolved the monarchy in 5700, ending 558 years of Yurievsky rule. Her father had repealed absolute male primogeniture after the death of her younger brother when she was 16.

[roman--baranovsky]

Character Info

-B A S I C S-

Name: Roman Baranovsky

Nicknames: N/A - and if you try to give him one he will either ignore it or punch you depending on his mood

Age: 34

Birthdate: June 14th 

Birthplace: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Gender: Male 

Orientation: Heterosexual 

Pronouns: He/Him

Profession: Russian Loyalist 

-P H Y S I C A L  A S P E C T S-

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Skin: Pale

Tattoos: Skull Tattoo Sleeve on his right arm, Grim Reaper on his left arm, others that I haven’t figured out yet 

Scars: Too many to list 

-F A M I L Y-

Siblings: Vladimir Baranovsky 

Parents: Galina Baranovsky 

Pets: Koshka the Cat 

Additional: N/A

-S K I L L S-

Talents: Cooking, Fighting, Annoying People 

Hobbies: MMA Training, Running, Sleeping 

-T R A I T S-

Positive: Athletic, Observant, Practical 

Neutral: Taciturn, Emo, Solitary 

Negative: Apathetic, Aggressive, Brutal 

-L I K E S-

Colors: Black

Smells: Black Coffee, Blood, His Mother’s Kitchen 

Music: EDM 

Drinks: Vodka, Coffee, Orange Juice 

-O T H E R  D E T A I L S-

Smokes: Yes

Drinks: Yes

Drugs: Yes

Been Arrested?: Yes

[goalhofer]

2022-23 Colorado Avalanche Roster

Wingers

#9 Evan Rodrigues (Toronto, Ontario)*

#11 Andrew Cogliano (Vaughan, Ontario)

#13 Valeri Nichushkin (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

#22 Dryden Hunt (Cranbrook, British Columbia)*

#25 Logan O’Connor (Calgary, Alberta)

#36 Anton Blidh (Mölnlycke, Sweden)*

#61 Martin Kaut (Brno, Czech Republic)**

#62 Artturi Lehkonen (Piikki��, Finland)

#92 Gabriel Landeskog (Stockholm, Sweden) C

#96 Mikko Rantanen (Nousiainen, Finland) A

Centers

#12 Jayson Megna (Northfield Township, Illinois)

#15 Shane Bowers (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

#18 Alex Newhook (St. John’s, Newfoundland)

#29 Nathan MacKinnon (Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia) A

#37 J.T. Compher (Northfield Township, Illinois)

#43 Darren Helm (St. Andrews, Manitoba)

#47 Alex Galchenyuk; Jr. (Sarnia, Ontario)*

#93 Jean-Luc Foudy (Toronto, Ontario)**

Defensemen

#4 Bowen Byram (Cranbrook, British Columbia)

#6 Erik Johnson (Bloomington, Minnesota)

#7 Devon Toews (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

#8 Cale Makar (Calgary, Alberta)

#26 Jacob MacDonald (Brighton, Michigan)

#42 Josh Manson (Prince Albert, Saskatchewan)

#49 Sam Girard (Roberval, Quebec)

#56 Kurtis MacDermid (South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario)

#88 Andreas Englund (Stockholm, Sweden)*

Goalies

#39 Pavel Francouz (Plzeň, Czech Republic)

#40 Alexandar Georgiev (Moscow, Russia)

[findthatsynchronicity]

Irina/Grayson have been repeatedly underscored domestically this season. In contrast to the other Canadian junior teams who have received similar or higher PCS in domestic events as compared to international events, Irina/Grayson’s highest PCS comes from JGP Chelyabinsk, where they got 26.17 in the rhythm dance and 40.25 in the free dance (which is 3.90 more total PCS than they received at Skate Canada Challenge). Teams that they have outscored in PCS internationally are outscoring them domestically (Olivia/Corey, Jessica/Jacob, etc). While they were within a point in free dance PCS from their training mates Nadiia/Peter at JGP Chelyabinsk, at Challenge Nadiia/Peter outscored them in free dance PCS by 7.38, which for reference is about the same as the difference between P/C and S/D’s free dance PCS at IdF (7.54).

Airport security: I meant anything to declare in your luggage.

[ripplestitchskein]

will you watch all the figure skating competitions?

Lol no. That’s pretty difficult to do. For instance, today Autumn Classic and Lombardia overlapped. There was also the Junior Grand Prix in Chelyabinsk way early in the morning.

I wasn’t as interested in the Lombardia lineup so I stuck with Autumn Classic since it had Yuzuru, Evgenia and Rika competing. I might go back and watch Lombardia this weekend while I work on some projects.

I like watching the early competitions even though they “technically” aren’t as important overall because you can see what kind of talent is coming up for the major events, and you get to see how the programs evolve through the season. That’s why I stated watching Junior Grand Prix this year as well. It’s fun to follow skaters for years and years and see how they grow and change and improve (or don’t, in some cases).

It’s also A LOT easier to watch these days which is fun. Back in the day you were pretty limited to major national events, Worlds and the Olympics that aired on like NBC Sports etc and hopefully it was on at times you could catch it. More recently I’ve been able to watch performances at various events on YouTube but you definitely lose that competition specific excitement and buildup piecemealing programs like that.

That’s why I think that the ISU embracing streaming culture is so important for the sport. Ted Barton is doing amazing things by emphasizing the JGP and making it accessible and I hope that trend continues with the other seniors competitions as well like it did today for SC: ACI.

I dunno. I’m really stoked this year (hence the live-blogging) at how it gets easier every year to watch, and that I can watch it with my kids like my Mom watched it with me even though I don’t have cable. Figure Skating is a weird sport in that the enjoyment is built up over years about specific individuals not like a regional team. So some of the fun is from things like seeing Tracey Wilson in the K&C (who has been on my TV so much in my life I consider her a distant Aunt type figure) or getting annoyed at specific commentators for obvious biases year after year, or watching skaters crash and burn one year and then have triumphant comebacks another.

Figure Skating is almost a narrative based sport in a way. It’s built slowly over time, and there are reoccurring people you love to see or people you have to say goodbye to and it’s something you form a connection with on an individual competitor level. I dunno. I love it.

This turned into a mini essay somehow lol, so apologies if you were just looking for a Yes or No, but I kind of felt the need to justify the recent FS related spam on my blog. I could live tweet but like...Twitter is such a cesspool of human suffering.